Augustus Pugin, Entrance Hall, Old Exhibition of the Royal Academy when at Somerset House (detail)
Past Exhibitions
2019
An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions
April 26 - September 8, 2019
Quiet as It's Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities
February 28 - April 7, 2019
Freehand: Drawings by Inez Nathaniel-Walker
February 1 - April 14, 2019
2018
Past Time: Geology in European and American Art
September 21 - December 9, 2018
Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection
April 27 - September 2, 2018
People are Beautiful: Prints, Photographs, and Films by Andy Warhol
January 26 - April 15, 2018
2017
Fluid Expressions: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
October 6 - December 10, 2017
A Neoclassical Portrait of a Classicist: Houdon’s Bust of Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
August 11 - December 22, 2017
Other People’s Pictures: Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Gift
July 14 - September 17, 2017
In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura
April 21 - July 2, 2017
The Art of Devastation: Medals and Posters of the Great War
January 27 - April 9, 2017
2016
Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection
September 2 - December 18, 2016
Universal Collection: A Mark Dion Project
May 26 - December 11, 2016
Touch the Sky: Art and Astronomy
April 29 - August 21, 2016
American Stories 1800–1950
January 29 - April 17, 2016
2015
Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument
September 25 - December 13, 2015
Punctuating Space: The Prints and Multiples of Richard Artschwager
June 26 - September 6, 2015
Embodying Compassion in Buddhist Art: Image, Pilgrimage, Practice
April 23 - June 28, 2015
Through the Looking Glass: Daguerreotype Masterworks from the Dawn of Photography
April 10 - June 14, 2015
XL: Large-Scale Paintings from the Permanent Collection
January 30 - March 29, 2015
2014
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540
September 19 - December 14, 2014
Faces and Figures in Self-Taught Art
July 11 - August 31, 2014
Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial
April 11 - June 29, 2014
Deluge
March 28 - July 20, 2014
The Art of Devastation: Medals and Posters of the Great War
January 27 - April 9, 2014
Malick Sidibé: Chemises
January 24 - March 30, 2014
2013
Decolonizing the Exhibition: Contemporary Inuit Prints and Drawings from the Edward J. Guarino Collection
December 4, 2013 - February 2, 2014
Genji’s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints
September 20 - December 15, 2013
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection
July 12 - September 8, 2013
The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation
April 2 - June 30, 2013
Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper
January 18 - March 30, 2013
2012
Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain
September 7 - December 9, 2012
Nature in America: Taming the Landscape
June 29 - August 26, 2012
Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu
April 13 - June 17, 2012
Mapping Gothic France
March 23 - June 11, 2012
Marco Maggi: Lentissimo
January 20 - April 1, 2012
2011
A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum
September 16 - December 11, 2011
A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel
June 24 - September 4, 2011
Nancy Graves: A Memorial Exhibition
May 17 - August 28, 2011
Naked City: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
May 10 - August 21, 2011
Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England
April 8 - June 12, 2011
150 Years Later: New Photography from Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin
January 28 - April 27, 2011
2010
Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall
January 22 - May 19, 2010
At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750
January 22 - March 21, 2010
2009
Albrecht Dürer: Impressions of the Renaissance
November 14 - December 24, 2009
Drawn by New York
August 14 - November 1, 2009
Catching Light
May 8 - July 26, 2009
Faith and Fantasy in Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection
February 13 - April 26, 2009
2008
Revealed Anew
November 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009
Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection
October 26, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Impassioned Images
August 22 - October 26, 2008
Facebook
June 27 - August 10, 2008
Artist, Auteur
March 18 - April 20, 2008
Out of Shape
March 14 - June 8, 2008
2007
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
November 2, 2007 - February 24, 2008
Hudson River School Trilogy
August 17 - October 21, 2007
For the People
July 12 - March 11, 2007
Utopian Mirage
May 25 - July 29, 2007
Chikanobu
March 23 - May 13, 2007
2006
Black is Black Ain't
October 31 - November 12, 2006
Off the Shelf
October 6 - December 17, 2006
Copies, Casts, and Pedagogy
September 13 - October 22, 2006